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Milos Filip was extremaly talented designer, dead young by suicide. As always: search for the woman, in this case she was another excellent designer, the most pretty glass designer of 60ties - Miloslava Svobodova.

(Michael, you don't have any chipped pieces in your Czech pressed glass collection? When I started collecting about a year ago, I was very intolerant about any damage to my glass. The slightest knick got me nervous. Now, I will buy a piece even if it isn't perfect, only because I love the design and am pessimistic enough to think I might never find another one...)

Anik, I do buy slightly chipped pieces, but it depends on how severe the damage is, how much I like the piece, and the price of course...If a small chip is only visible on very close inspection I usually don't mind.Heavy wear to the bottom or some scratching to the surface I regard as signs of age

(During the past few weeks everything desirable I saw on the fleamarkets was chipped, quite disappointing. So a nice Gangkofner vase, a Borskle Sklo Nemo vase with stripes instead of dots, and a Murano vase I quite liked had to stay where they were).